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Source: http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/opinion.cfm?id=36842004
Arafat is No Nelson Mandela
(Scotsman-UK) George Kerevan - In recent times, we have acquired a simplistic, erroneous vision of a racist, colonial Israel oppressing downtrodden Palestine. Yet Arafat not only walked away from the negotiating table, but sanctioned an unbelievably murderous terror campaign inside Israel that is designed to bury any form of negotiations. In Europe - where there has been a naive tendency to turn the Palestinian terrorists into freedom fighters - the EU supplies Arafat with ample amounts of your tax money both to fill his own Swiss bank accounts and to fund the appalling official Palestinian television service, with its constant diet of music videos extolling Palestinian youths to become suicide bombers. In Europe, this security fence is castigated as a new Berlin Wall. In fact, as I've seen for myself, it is, for the most part, a rather fragile barbed-wire fence, with electronic sensors to detect the passage of any would-be suicide bombers. Arafat's pointless intifada has manufactured a passion for martyrdom within the Palestinian youth that can't be switched off easily. Arafat is no Nelson Mandela, and that is the tragedy of the Palestinian people.